The Left Finds Their Demographic
Pity the Prince when duty requires him to take on the visage of the commoner, and admit to some mistake, or shortcoming, or flop, so as to better connect with the benighted masses. It's an uncomfortable experience for everyone involved, but President Obama, bless his little halo, did what he could. "The mistake of my first term - couple of years - was thinking that this job was just about getting the right policy. And that's important, but the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times." Why, the Captain of the Titanic couldn't have said it any better!
May I have your attention please: This is your Captain. We only have a short time before the ship goes under, but I want to assure you all that the policies we pursued were the right ones. I've worked tirelessly to ensure that my boat provided as smooth a journey as possible, …to this point at least. Now, we could have reversed course, but I believe in a Titanic that moves forward. Forward to a new place, a new horizon, not back to the things we left safe harbor to escape. That's what change is all about! My only regret that we didn't go to the bottom of the ocean with greater unity, purpose, and a greater sense of optimism. But hey, I tried. In the meantime, I want you to know that I have directed my staff to accomplish all checklists as required, and they will be around to have you sign a few forms before drinks are served, so to speak. And as always, thank you for sailing with us. We know you had your choice of boats to travel on,… and you chose wrong.
Meanwhile, back on dry land, the President explains that his only failing is in not dumbing things down enough to correct our deficient appreciation for the wreckage his initiatives have wrought. The problem isn't a shrinking work force, you understand, or a record number months of unemployment over 8 percent, or a first-ever downgraded national credit rating, or a national debt equal to GDP, or record numbers of people on public assistance, or a healthcare law whose costs have tripled before it's even implemented. No, the problem is that the President hasn't administered enough intellectual novocaine to numb the minds of people who are smart enough to see that his utopian pipe dream isn't working.
Then the thought occurred that he really isn't talking to us! His shabby confession of inadequacy was little more than noblesse oblige at discount prices. And he's not talking to the independent voters either. They are deserting him via the nearest stampede. His only hope is the only audience that still believes him. Who are they? Listen to the leader of Women in NAACP, Charlotte Stoker Manning who, while discussing Governor Romney's speech to that organization, let slip liberalism's mask of altruism: "You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he's coming from. He's talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts -- black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work." Evidently, the idea that Governor Romney can speak as an adult, in a room full of adults, is quite too much for Ms. Manning, whose degrading and racist remarks are about the most repugnant thing to come along in awhile. But at least she illuminates the President's target demographic.
Talking to the same organization,Vice President Biden said that, "Children should be educated to the degree they are educable." And who decides who is educable? Charlotte Stoker Manning? Thus does the Progressive's longstanding opposition to parental choice in education come into focus. Government schools exist to produce good little government subjects, and if there is a disruption in the supply chain due to competition from better schools, the prospects for government omnipotence begins to diminish.
The reluctant conclusion is that having lost independent voters and many thinking Democrats, the President is now courting the stupid vote. The rest of us are a lost cause. How else to explain the appeal to base instincts such as envy and the decidedly un-American proposition that one can only succeed at the expense of another? How else to justify the President's executive action, signed just yesterday, to remove work requirements from the Welfare Reform Law signed by Bill Clinton? The President's claim that he wants to create more jobs collides headlong with his removal of work as a requirement to receive public assistance in all but the most hopeless of minds. And he's betting that there are just enough of them to give him a second term.
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Jun '10
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Michael Moore explains the Obama road to prosperity:
GRITtv: Michael Moore: You Can't Steal Our Jobs!
Edited on July 14, 2012 at 4:27amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfP-sHnMr3s
Dec '10
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It's not a bad bet... at least 50% are below average, doncha' know?
Apr '11
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That was a striking quote from Biden, bit not quite in the way he intended it to be :"children should be educated to the degree they are educable." For the most part, in the black community, that is exactly what is happening. Capable black students are vacuumed up into the meritocracy in short order.
Edited on July 14, 2012 at 5:41amMar '11
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Does that mean it's story time? Oh boy! I always loved story time! Is this one going to have a composite princess in it?
Jun '10
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May '10
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Oh, well said indeed, Mr. Carter! "Noblesse oblige at discount prices" is a marvelous and concise summary of this president's attitude.
Apr '11
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Your posts often hit the nail on the head...and this is no exception.
To assume that the American people are less intelligent then the people who run this country is a misjudgement. Most of us are too smart to listen to the narrative of one so focused upon his own glory. One who must tear everyone else down to be able to lift himself up. One who thinks that we fail to understand what he has been saying over and over again for three years....nothing.
It isn't the policy, but the publicity according to his assessment.
Now that is true ignorance.
Not only is the policy a failure, his ability to persuade has diminished. And since that was his only qualifiction, he has been diminshed as well. Unfortunately, he has diminished what the Untited States has always been--self reliant, fair, cheering on the winners, helping when necessary, and letting people become adults and make their own decisions of how they want to live their lives.
In hopes of returning to those characteristics, we must change the people who occupy the power centers in Washington at election time.
Sep '10
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That is a perfectly post-modern and smug non-admitting admission of error.
Jan '11
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Hold on, now. We're missing an opportunity here.
Every time Obama speaks in favor of something, its popularity goes down. His policies only become more favorable when he stops speaking. His numbers go up when he's on vacation. The vaunted communicator does most of his damage when he thinks he's communicating.
So ... we want him to communicate as much as he wants. We want America to listen to him - the more people listen, the less they like him.
Aug '10
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A suggestion, or perhaps a wish:
Since Dave is already a seasoned pro at criss-crossing the country as a truck driver, I suggest we raise the funds to sponsor Dave to follow Obama around the country.
After every Obama stump speech, Dave would pull up, step out from his rumbling big rig, and in his own artful style, expose the lies and general all-around nonsense passed off by the President in every speech he makes.
He could close every speech with something to the effect of, "I'm not running for anything or from anything, folks. I just thought you might be ready for a little Truth and Change."
A guy can dream, can't he?
Mar '11
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This is discount? Good thing we aren't getting stuck with full-up retail.
Apr '11
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Dave, I don't have anything in particular to add, but I just wanted to let you know that you have been positively en fuego lately.
Oct '10
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"You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he's coming from. He's talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts -- black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work."
Did it not occur to anyone to then ask her, "then why do 95% of you keep voting Democrat year after year, decade after decade?"
Aug '10
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I think Obama believes this dreck. Leftists always need an excuse for the wreckage their glorious plans leave in their wake. Usually, those to blame are the 'obstructionists' who insist on living their own lives and who are not willing to jump feet first into the collectivist stew. In the past, leftists in other countries have blamed the Jews, the Kulaks, the educated class, gypsies, billionaires, conservatives, Americans, and those meddling kids.
Saying that his problem was that he just didn't communicate well enough is just another way of saying, "my plan would have worked if there had just been more unity - instead, some people didn't see the glory of my ideas and obstructed them. So all this is really their fault."
This is also why left-wing leaders tend to seek increasing power without limit. They become convinced that those failed ideas of the past were right in concept, but flawed in execution because the opposition sabotaged them. So all they need is absolute power to do it right, and the utopian egalitarian state is right around the corner.
Dec '10
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"...have you sign a few forms before drinks are served, so to speak."
It's early, yet, but I nominate that for Line of the Month!
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I think you've hit it square on the nose, Dan. This is why they keep opening the same door and hitting themselves in the face with it.
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Songwriter: A suggestion, or perhaps a wish:
Since Dave is already a seasoned pro at criss-crossing the country as a truck driver, I suggest we raise the funds to sponsor Dave to follow Obama around the country.
After every Obama stump speech, Dave would pull up, step out from his rumbling big rig, and in his own artful style, expose the lies and general all-around nonsense passed off by the President in every speech he makes.
He could close every speech with something to the effect of, "I'm not runningforanything orfromanything, folks. I just thought you might be ready for a little Truth and Change."
A guy can dream, can't he? · 9 hours ago
It would be mad fun, wouldn't it? Unhappily, I think my company would frown on it since the company and I both have bills to pay. But I would enjoy it immensely.
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Nah,...I'm as docile as lighter fluid. But thanks anyway!
Jun '11
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I have been saying this for a few months now. It's pretty obvious these days, every time Zero opens his lying maw, that he's going for those last few "undecided" dopes that Jonah Goldberg rightly ridicules. While I am absolutely loathe to cater to the stupid, it's not really a bad strategy, even though it's about as cynical and soulless as can be imagined. Everyone else's vote is locked in, it's only the stupid people who can be swayed now. That's the whole OFA strategery. It explains everything.
Aug '11
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That comment by Ms. Manning is so demeaning and so typical. It falls in line with Eric Holder and others who claim voter I.D. laws are racist because blacks are not as capable of getting state I.D.'s as other ethnic groups!